Linda Torres

The happiest moment in my life was when I jumped into my husband's arms and I got back home from Afghanistan.

Yeah, yeah.

So he picked me up from Fort Benning, Georgia, if you know where that is, and we drove to D.C.

where I was stationed.

I was so excited to see Gina.

She hadn't seen me in like six or seven months.

And she came home, and it would always be an empty house.

And she saw me, and she was just like, oh, oh, that's my person.

So she came up to me and ran up to me.

And she had her tail wagging just enthusiastically.

And she came up to me and kissed me and circled me.

So that was wonderful.

So the next day, Adam, my husband, went to work.

He was really busy and had a lot of work to do.

I, on the other hand, had a lot of days off.

I was really lonely and alienated, and I found out that I had a back injury, so I couldn't run or do yoga or do any of those things that I like to do for stress relief.

But what I did was I walked Gina a ton, and I played fetch with her, and I read books about war stories because I felt connected to the people in the books and stuff.

But Adam was acting a little strange.

He would come home late, and he would be really withdrawn and quiet and stuff.

So I sat him down, and I was just like, what is up?